Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 16, 1894, Page 4

JMAHA DAILY BEI THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1801 THE ,! s THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. G -E ROSEWATER, ;}'l\lflr. tr R ] 7]'|"Il. SHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Daifly Bea (without Sunday) One Year Dally Ten and Sunday, One Year Eix Months Three Months Bunday Nee. aturday T Weekly Tee, One Year One_ Yenr One Year OFFICES, ©Omaha, The I Bouth Omaha Councdl T, Chicagn Office. 317 Ch of ow York, Rooma 13, 14 and 15 107 ¥ N nd Twenty-tourth § 12 roet Spmmerc Tribune Bdg il ok (o news and edl ‘matter #h ! 7. o the Eaitor. RUSINESS LETTERS All bininess lotters and remittances should b addressed o The Mee Publishing company. stoMce orders to T the company. COMPANY. THE 1B = STATEMENT George 11 ishing OF CIRCULATION Finted ‘during (he Month of July, HOI, was an ottow: i 21m i i i 24,015 2 7 2 ) 3 3. Leas deductions Unagidandret coples teivsiin Total Datly ave *Sunday. wold ¢ net’ elrealation B B. TZSCHUCK serihed in my pres 1594, GREO| Bworn to before me and s ence thin Ist day of Aug (Beal) ary Publl — to sign, that is the ques- —President Cleveland's soliloquy. ter anarchists in all the lead rope goes merrily on “To slgn or not tion.’ The hunt ing countries of The senatorial Sugar speculators wish they were still holding thelr stock for a rise. trust No train upon which passes are recognized fs too fast to bring the anxious congress- man home to his constituents, to require the passage of a new insure the regular annual re- of politics. Tt didn't tarift bill to vival in the busines The deadlock fever scems to be spreading from the congressional conference committee 1o the congressional nominating convention. Those popgun tariff bills will probably be preserved by the senate for use in appro- Priately celebrating a noisy Fourth of July next year. Senator Vest objects to calling it “the Sugar trust tariff.” The majority of the people object to the Sugar trust tariff in substance as well as in name. Senator Gorman must at least be given credit for taking his victory quletly. Mr. Gorman is too astute and shrewd a politi- clan to erow at any stage of the game. Was it Chairman Wilson who said he hoped the house would remain In session the remainder of its natural term before yielding to the demands of the Sugar trust senators? The ghost of the Tenth street union depot again flitted across the council chamber. It should be captured and chained to the pinna- cle of the tower or be made to live with the glasticutases of the city hall. Notwithstanding the hot winds, the new tarift bill and the political strife that op- presses the state, the Nebraska Manufactur- ers and Consumers association goes steadily forward. The Beatrice banquet promises to be a howling success. The president Is placed in the unfortunate position where he is compelled to choose between consistency and party expediency. In other words, he is forced to say whether or not he thinks himself, as has been so often alleged, greater than his party. With all the old-time democratic war horses of Douglas county lined up with the adminlstration wing of the party, the Bry- anites will nct casily secure a delegation to the state ntion. It will not take long for t show under which flag they sail. cony m to It halt of the prominent have promised if po Grand Army reunion terialize no one the encampment politicians who ble to appear at the at Grand Island ma- be able to distinguish from a political convention. The old soldier who is not in politics will bo about as scarce at the reunion as the politician who does not want an office. will Cindered roads are all right for boule- vards and parks, but they will not stand the wear and tear of a busy street. Un- paved streets in the business center of the oty must be paved, and the abutting own- ers should stand the expense just as others have done on the strects already paved. By inaugurating the practice of cindering streets at the general expense, a great injustice will bs done property owners who have paid onge for the improvement of their streets and are again called on to contribute toward improving streets in front of others' prop- erty. What does tho city council mean by order ing the advertisement for elcctric lighting bids to call for a lamp of 46 volts and 9.5 amperes? Every member of the council knows, or ought to know, that the nominal 2,000-candls power lamp is one of 45 volts and 10 amperes. The proposed advertisement ks for a lamp of 5 per cent less capacity than what the Thomson-Houston company claims to be now supplying. Was it thought that this trick would this time eseape public notice? When the city buys electric light lot it buy it by the everywhere accepted standard of measurement. Before the office of the city clerk, now temporarily filled by appointment, can be filled for the remainder of the term by elec tion, an ordinance providing that the voters have an opportunity to choose a city clerk at the next regular election will be sary. The city council seems to be In no haste to pass such an ordinance, that sub- Ject not even having bren raised sinee tho emergency has arisen. There is plenty of time to consider the matter, but It should not be left until the very minute. The ordinance should be Introduced at once and ubjected to careful revision in order that ¥ person who may be electad oity clerk may bave a title without defect. Upon this question there ought to be no division of entiment among the members of the council. last A PARTY. WITHOUT A LF When a political party condition of being without a or leader, ntra ALK the ynsible has reached there is no one who its forces nfidence, it 1 destruction when ne and command only This party at 1 e can’ expect tion of the and a careful study g Is the democratic this t does not afford wiil be able in its condition, It pleces. The ful and with its s broken, though le since it b But ndition me, f the situation that the future any the promis party Dbetter rly to near to may e utt f the p n stron ty is wond: hold still un tim uthe s secure than at solidly malintain riy i rwhelming defeat altogether eharad contr any amo dene will il as a haticnal | ratie, it local organization 1s doomed to cer to say will at and oy for years it ragh its come, and it is not 1o that with pre ristios it never again in of national fairs, A month ago Grover Cleveland was re nized as the head and leades of th racy, although having many encmies party, but he lost that the he allied himself with housa dem in flity to the of the rized the latter as guilty of per- Mr. Cl tn the prestige Is with the fac- has antag that Gormun 0f of demoe in the position moment the crats hos democeral s senat and charac fidy to the a following, he completencss sible. sena par velund las but od and with such tion that no reconclifation the democeratic and has by fmpli denounced as perfidious and dishonorable in connection tariff legislation not only will refuse ackno his lership, but will reject any one whom he might de- im ¢ head of the party. with Cleveland recetves for leadership to pt the ¢ lost weight those is pos and other s whom Cle with ledge sire Whoever endorsement will concerned party other president to succee is or his these senators they in on in can any ps tension which may be made by any of these to party leadership. Mr is unquestionably one of the shrewdest poli- in lis it has been such as to entitle him to great con- sideration, but Crisp, Wilson and stood with them In condemning the senate's treatment of the could not mar- shaled under the leadership of the Mary- land senator, great the exigeney. And what is true of him applies with even greater force to the other senators who were with him in the tariff fight, for none of them ability or party far influence value. believe him equally depended upon to repudiate refuse as are the the eveland and still loyal has hand and who the are to be senators Gorman iclans party, and his service to those who tar be howeve has his claim to be a leader. Glance have over the list of those who might leaders under different circum- stances. Secretary Carlisle could have jus- tiflably aspired to the He strong in the confidence of the party when ho entercd the cabinet. He is an able and conscientions man. But he lacks the cour- ago and the independence that are essential to successful leadership. He is wanting in that strong individuality which followers and holds them to allegiance. Wil- son, the author of the tarift bill, seemed a possible leader, but his absolute surrender after the most solemn declara- tion that he would never yleld destroyed all his chances and left him with far less influence in party than before. Voor- hees, Vest, Mills, Crisp, all of them prom- inent in the councils of their party, are lack- ing in the qualifications for leadership, There 1s one other conspicuous figure—Senator Hill of New York. There is no more able, adroit and skillful democratic politician than Hill, and he has shown on the floor of the qualities for which he had not before re- celved credit. But Mr. Hill must to be sat'sfied with leading the democracy of New York. Outside of that state there is no confidence in him. Indeed his brated declaration, “I am a democrat,” very generally treated elsewhere with rision, There being no democratic leader in con- gress or in the cabinet, where shall the party look for one? Who is there in public life In any of the states fitted to assume the leadership of the democracy in its present condition, bring the factions together and marshal it for the coming battles? What hope can the party have of success two years hence with any of the men who are now conspicuous in Its councils? been position. was commands house his enate continue cele- is de- ELECTIONS INVESTIGATION, introduced into the by S of New Hampshire about a ring an investigation by a commmittee of that body into the al- leged frauds perpetrated in the recent Ala- bama elections has raised discussion as to the constitutional authority of the sen- ate to take such a step should it so desi Denial of that authority might naurally be expected from democratic and states rights sour but the same objections have been raised by one or two newspapers which lay claim independence in politics. The Springfield Republican, for example, charac- terizes Senator Chandler’s resolution as *‘noth- ing other than a bit of cheap partisan bun- And it goes on to say that the senate has jurisdiction whatever over the Alabama election, which was for state officers and held under state laws, and no more right to Interfere in it than In the election of a city government. The election machinery, rcturns and cll the necessary material for an investigation are in the hands of state officers, who could, with safety, In its opinion, defy any attempt of a senate committee to get at it. It further insists that were it possible to show that the worst charges of fraud in this election were justi- fled there could nothing out 1t by congress. And similar are ex- pressed in other quarters, All these crities, that the Alabama elections were held in part for the purpose of choosing the members of a new legislature and that this leg will have the of the ssor of Mr. Morgan in the United States senate, The constitution vests in each house of congress the power to pass upon the returns and qual tfications of its own members and alsg to prescribe the of holding representatives, The senata th ction over the elec ALABAMA The resolution senate ator Chandler week ago or some es, to combe. no to be done views however, seem to forget slature selection sucel gives times, elections congress the places and manner nators and o of choosing senators power of 5 excepting th pl fore has compl tions vestizat tles open Jur of United States senators and can them whother the stat willing or not. The only then, far ate can go In passing upon the ibers. It be ad mitted that the tendency is to relinquish con- trol over the elections to the the ropeal of the federal elections law by the congress the best evidence Yet a liberal interpretation of th will leave the free to avenu fraud that elietion of a in authorl question back the eredentials are to dispute, how se of newly elected me must states, present being of this. constitution tnto possibly senate of the the inqutre might into United 1t legislature of Alabama just chosen s not really the of the r which will not be a true every enter States senator. vole of the peopl: Alabama 1t may choose senat representa. ( ! tiva of the state of Alabama, and his certif- foate of election would be Fightly open to question presented for acceptance by would case should the legislatur to when the senate. \We have a paralfel of Alabama determine, iteslf appoint the when its own members have elocted be in votes as is its right presi dentlal electors In the latter duty cast by such instance the has the constitutional rFight to Alabama §cnator that the legislature product of a gros not been regularly gr would bound t £ count the ctors. 8o also in the present senate plainly teny admis should it be ) him convinced t the at sent was fraud It s not that the very good for the passage of the Chandlir that the Alaba be admitted to the senat th which rests ture by whom th red prospects a next 1a sen- without upon the cholce s to be made I8 than regard to cloud The *‘cheap partisan buncombe the jurisdiction for the posed agion It it would only exercise it as In the resolution ssolution, however, more constitutional pro- investi cont:mplated ATTEND THE PRIMARIES. The republican primaries which are to be held in (ke various wards and precinets of this county Friday will be the turning point of the state campalgn. As goes Doug- hat the populists true again battle must of Douglas through th county conventlon weight in the lus county so goes the state trus of every campaign sinc the field and it will be As the brunt of the by the republicans their choice as voiced elictions and have preponderating of the party. It goes without say- every inch of ground will have be hotly contested in this county during the impending campalgn. On the in Douglas county depinds not merely republi- in state house but also a republican to the United With victory or defeat hang- ing in the balance it behooves republicans to and discriminating in thoir choice of delegates for the state conventlon. Above all things Douglas county republicans should see to it that a defensive campaign 1s not forced upon them by the nomination of a standard public career has made him vulnerable to the charge of dishonesty and subservicncy to jobs and corporate monopoly. The fact that any candidate carried the state for a secondary office two years ago or four years ago af- fords no criterion of his chances of election as chief in the year 1894. It is one thing for a soldier to fight in the rear ranks and another thing to be in the very front of battle. A defensive fight for the color bearer means a defensive fight all along the line. Every candidate on the state ticket will be compelled to stand up and champion the head of the ticket against charges that cannot be rofuted. Every can- didate for congress and every candidate for the legislature will have to do likewise. In being forced on the defensive from the start the whole ticket is liable to be dragged down into defeat. Joupled with the responsibility that rests upon the republicans of this county is the duty to be discharged Friday at the primar- fes. Every republican who desires party success should make it his business to par- ticipate in the primary election and cast his vote for the delegates that will repre- sent his wishes and sentiments on the issues of the day. It is at the primary eclection when the rank and file must make its in- fluence felt, and if the party is to be saved from disaster this year every active re- publican must do his duty at the primaries. has been entered this fall. be borne county, primary should councils ing that to outcome can supremacy the the election States senate. of be prudent bearer whose executive AN INTERNATIONAL ISSUE. The government has another international question on hand, growing out of the asylum given to General Ezeta, the fugitive ex-vice president of Salvador, on an American war vessel, the Bennington. The matter promises complications and at any rate will attract attention because of the bearing it has upon the right of asylum. After the success of the revolution in Salvador a short time ago Ezeta fled and sought refuge on the Dennington, which was accorded him. In effect this was the same as seeking refuge in our territory and public comment has approved the action of the commander of the war vessel. It was in accordance with the established practice of our government, Granting asylum Is not obligatory. It is not required by the law of nations. It is an act of courtesy dnd humanity, to be per- formed whenever in the judgment of the representative of the power from whom it is sought it Is desirable or advisable. In receiving Ezeta the commander of the Ben- nington assumed that he was flying from danger which threatened his life and that the claims of humanity required (hat he be given refuge. According to instruc- tions sent out to naval vessels three years they authorized to afford shelt:r whereyer it may be needed to per- sons other than criminals. Included among such persons are political refugges, and the instructions read that the obligation to re- such refugees and to afford them an asylum is, in general, one of pure humanity. Commanders of war ships are not allowed to invite or encourage such refugees to come aboard their ships, but should they apply for an asylum the commander will be governed by considerations of humanity and the exi- gencies of the service upon which he Is en- goaged. Bzeta went aboard of the Benning- ton of his own free will and the commander appears to have acted strictly in the line of the instructions applying to such cases. He knew that the refugee's life would be in danger if he remained in Salvador, and, as an act of humanity, he gave him tle asylum asked for. It nothing more than the bare question of right of asylum involved there would be no ise Ezeta, the arrival of the Hennington at San Francisco, would go forth \ free But the government of surrender return the ground that he is a criminal. He is charged by that government with murder, arson and robbery, ment is asked to extradition treaty rs these crim:s. Our government, 1s not disposed to ~ignore these charges, though just what the authorities at Washington have decided to do is not known. It has been reported that the Bennington would probably be intercepted before cnters A waters by United States ofclals, authority, it is presumed, urder some our ago, are celve was on nan, alvador domands his and on and this gove surrender him under the which eov rican with is [ vlace Bzeta est and bring him be- fore the federal court at San Franc'sco, he would have an opportunity to answer the The friends of the distinguished refugee have not been idle and all the preparations necessary to his defense made. T refugees but Interest will in his it the charges against him are sustained, those the others will bably fall to the Indeed it Is ly that the goverament of Salvador cares little about the ex-vice president where charges against him have been are other with Ezeta, center not agalnst to ground. 1k return of any one but very ue Is some what complicated, and, owing to its pecullar The senate has | 1 | toaturs a precedent Ereta ment at the_disposition of it will establish Thete can be no doubt that will revs) fair and impartial treat- the kal of our government gilver BlanT his b twelfth term 1 th and he will probably for ral y working for of siiver at must b n ablest of the f to his leadership must be the ho!d which that with the people south practical an renominated f house of representative be found i Washington sev Ay come agitating and free and unlimited coinag old ratio of 16 to 1. Tt wiedged that Bland th » silver advocates soribed deluson the is and t much of red Bland devises the Intricacies of times has and west peliticlan and various schemesfby which the parliamentary practica have at turned to the advantage of the free coinage faction. The passage of the Bland seignior age bill, vet-ed by President Cle the work of its author more than of any other but it apparently the culmination of his influence in congress. It is doubtful whether, though retur, to congress by his constituents regularly during the remainder of his life, he will wield the he had in the slon now closing is land of marked was of man, he be power which Straight-laced stoutly declines the Ninth gress. lowa ten Weaver's tirades against the party dur- ing his swing the country in the presidential campaign, neither are they will- ing to subscribe to the populist national plat- form of 1892, which contains' the following plank: ‘““We charge that the controlling in- fluences of both great political parties have permitted existing dreadful conditions to de- velop. *** llcither they promise any substantial reform. They have o together to ignore cvery fssue but one. They propose to drown the outcries of a plundered people with the uproar of a sham battle over the tariff. * ¢ * They propose to sacri- fice our homes, lives and children the altar of mammon.” Weaver stood this platform when he denounced the party whose votes he It remains to be se whether or not he shall get them. the river Weaver, for yet forgo democracy swallow J. B dist democrats across to Towa, it nominee con have not around do us on on seeks. now on Now that the tariff fight is to all appear- Mr. Breckinridge of Arkansas, recently a member of the house ways and means takes time send In his resignation from congress and to qualify for the of minister to Russia, to which he was appointed several wecks Ho retained his place in congress after his confirmation by the senate merely himself in support of President Cleveland's attitude on the tariff bill. His conduct re- calls the similar of Justice White, who, afier his promotion to the bench of the supreme court, "refused to relinquish his place as senator from Louisiana until he had made good hig influence in behalf of his constituents. It was feared at the time that Justice White would bring the whole court into disreputdy Such conduct on the part of men promofed from congress to ap- pointive offices must tend to lower them in the estimation of the public. ances over, committee, to position ago. to exert action Perhaps congressmen will not take ad- vantage of that ten days leave to print tariff speeches In the Record! Those who havo already been defeated for renomination will not. Dut those who hope to go before the people again this fall will seize the opportun- ity with avidify. The public” printer may nave to put on an extra force of men to get out the ponderous numbers of the Record when the avalanche of speeches onco begins. an Why advertise again for electric lighting if Mr. Wiley can continue to have all com- peting bids rejected and then break his own agresment at his own free will? Will a new invitation for electric lighting bids be apt to induce any one to make a bona fide tender when Wiley is known to have the power to reject it in case it happens to be the lowest of the bids? renator, Speak Out. New York Sun. What did Senator Gorman mean when he referred in open session of the senate to his journey through filth and mire for Cleveland's sake in 18847 Did he mean that there have been two fraudulent presidents of the United States? — ———— Wheeling to a Wheel. Repub The relay race from Washington to Den- ver @ very notable event in the his- tory of bicycling in the United States, and it doubtless will attract attention, not only in this country, but also in Europe, It was full of suggestions as to the uses to which 1e could be put in time of war. It was a wonderful race in many respects and highly creditable to the members of the league who took part in it. 520 S ust Applies the Serews. Minneapolis Journal, The Sugar trust has advanced the whole- sale price of sugar one-eighth of a cent a pound on the strength of the 40 per cent ad valorem duty on raw sugar, designed to protect the Louisiana planters. The ad- vance of the wholesale price of ‘sugar will affect the retail price accordingly. —The Sugar trust is pretty well fixed, as it h been rushing scores of ships loaded w raw sugar into eastern ports for some time free of duty. s The Business Horlzon Brightening. Boston Globe, viewed from any standpoint, then, it cer- tainly looks as if the first stréaks of a new dawn were showing on the business and financial horizon. The darkness is cer- tainly being dissipated, and the sunlight is bound to burst in all its glory in the nea future. This is a time, therefore, for h and courage rather than for despondency and hesitation. Pessimism should have no place whatever in the measuring of the fu- ture, Confidence begets confidence, and energy and pluck will now, as ever,’ aver- come seemingly insurmountable obstacles. ———— riti¥m 10 the A Philadglphia Press, The farce of fputting the favored sons of officers and public men through the ranks for a year or two on their way to a commission while galdiers of long service are passed by and miss the corporal or ser- geant's stripes for.which they have bLeen waiting Tor yewrs i now in progress in many regiments. Yet army officers. wonder why no man who can get anything else to do will ever enlist dy @ service where this gross favoritism’ }s in progress. The only remedy is for cohress to require a stift examination of all privates enlisting with a view to promotivpy This would shut out the men now afmitted throuh favoritism many of whom hitve proved unable, ih incompetence or ignokance, to enter Point or to remain there after entrance i Tho Rain-dlaking Fakir. Chiicgp Mail rainmakers axe at it over westeri, gountry, yet the or & up. In.sgme sections the wi % “eon. ‘trom hi{ 5 aeter tholr hombardment by 'éx and enthusi- astic persons straghtway 1 organize rain-making compinies. A dozen inventors of as many differént systems are working in various parts of the country, and it would be st o if local showers were not occasionally coincident with the experl ments. The rain may even fall over a cor siderable area, the success of artificial cloud-breaking 1s still undeterinined Probably the st test ever ki schemes was that under the auspices the government. for which T rw Secured an appropriation. The experiments were trled on the MOITS rancn i L belt of Texas, and were under the dir of experts, who had ample means f test. The sclentists forgot to take along their rain guages to measure the depth of the rainfall, but a cowboy solved that dif ficulty by Sticking & cow's horn into th ground, = There wasn't enough drippi from the skies to need measurement, and the reports of the government agents wer Vaoidadly nnfavarable, Posaibly nrivate Yornrise will brine more favorable r It hasn't done 50 yets ¥av nye ar The all s [ n these ction the PEOPLE AND THINGS, The yellow jacket was cut for Wilso; Gorman wears it Senator Hill is growing accumulating fat A ot of New York successfully for back pay tarift bill fs und measure—for senators or Plunger Bd Pardridge wo cereal and long on the juice g0 beyond the folly of but Clevelandish. He I8 ballet girls kicked The new ibtedly a reve suort on Cleveland need 1son for evidence o strik A serious the sugar-coa’od ploited about November 7 The one hundredth birth of William Cullen brated at_ Cummi was born November 3, Ten from now or sion offers, Arthur Pue Gorman .can supple ment his reflections on the mire of 1884 with a chapter on the Havemeyer of 1894 That stanch de organ _ of wthtul in Missourl, the St. Louis Republic manages to smother the discomforts of re. form _crow g pathetically on “The Pie Secretary cabinet twen'y a day seen without two brands to give away One of the priv army is Joe H Louisville. Bunce not W thy error has been di bill. Another will be sary of will b today annive Bryar Mass., 1704 He years sooner, if ocea Gresl prize smoker of of cigars s for him to be He carries the other m 18 the His allowance and it is tare one in his mouth one for personal use, 1ly's Commonweal Bunce, formerly mayor of dissippated two fortunes in ten years. The first he made in Louis ville and the other in Colorado. He joined Kelly's army in California Syndicated descriptions of an alligator in the ac stone are golng the rounds. The publica- tion s timely For alligator substitute democracy, and you have an accurate pen picture of a current event Judge Eli Aylesworth, president Westminster bank of Providence, who has Just died at the age of 92, has been a banker for fifty yes In a little box in the bank are the first four silver dollars he ned. He got them by pitching hay hoeing potatoes. Owing to a similarity of names, Mr. Henry Watterson of Louisville, Ky., has been del- uged with letters cordially approving his supposed temperance views. The le‘ters were intended for Bishop Watterson of Columbus, 0. There is no doubt that Mr. Watterson is now as heretofore loyal to Kentucky. Mrs. S. Louise tinction of being the first birth to apply for and se papers in Cleveland, O. she applied thought it was a joke, and pro- ceeded to read her a lecture on womanly duties. She replied with considerable spirit, | and soon convinced his honor that she was | thoroughly in earnest. Not much is heard of the widow of Will- jam H. Vanderbilt nowadays, but those who | know her say there is no woman in the country who does more good with her money than she does. She lives in a very modest way, and nine-tenths of her enormous in- ome is given to the poor. She emplo: gents who are cons'antly engaged in - look- ing up the cases of those who apply to her for aid, and a worthy applicant is alw generously assisted. Congressman Breckinridge, the new mi ter to Russia, possesses an accomplishment that should endear him to St. Petersburg diplomats. It consists of the artistic con- coction of a “whisky sour.” Into a small lass he puts a little water and two lumps of sugar. Into another glass he squeezcs some lemcn juice, while a third glass holds the whisky and a fourth glass, of larger size, contains crushed ice. Into the last named glass is poured first the sugar, then tho lemen juice, then the whisky, and the result is a very seductive beverage. 2 SO GPERFIDY AND DISHONOR." tes In K of the contortions of swallowing a of the Patterson enjoys the dis- woman of foreign sure naturalization ‘he Judge to whom St. Paul Ploncer Press (rep): The demo- cratic party is disgraced cternally, but for the country there is now a chance of salva- tion Indianapol! News (Ind.): for the average citizen to democratic party ever was part Denver Republican: It is a bill for the country than the house bill was, for that was an extreme radical measure, very much in line with the Chicago platform and Mr. Cleveland’s views of tariff reform. City Star (ind. dem.): It is idle sert; it is hardihood to ask anybody to . that the tari bill as passed by the senats and accepted yesterday by the house in any way approaches the measurc the country had the right to demand and ex- pect. Minnoapolis Journal (rep.): The country has a tarift, half way protection and half way free trade, the most hopeless jumble of in- consistences and full of def-cts and blunders in wording, which, unless removed by sup- plemental legislation, will engender any amount of litigation. Kansas City Times, (dem. yesterday in the house was a glorious achievement. Delays are proverbially dan- gerous, and thera was peril in protracting the useless struggle over this measure. Dut the evl as been averted by the masterly management of the closing operations. Louisville Courier-Journal, (dem.): How much better t n anything which can result from the present situation would it have been for the party and for tarift reform if the house had stood squarely for a r:venue bill and gone down fighting for the right, without taint of cowardice or stultification? Chicago Times (dem.): The cou ability and pertinacity of the democrats the house have been as admirable as cowardice, venality nd coundrelism many of the democrats of the senate wel damnable, There are men in the upper house of our national legislature of today who, had they their deserts, would be wearing stripes in penitentiaries. Chicago Herald (dem.): By intrigue and connivance with the monopoly and trust re- publicans they (democratic senators) h defeat-d such a tariff as should have been adopted. They must be driven out. They are not democrats. As the victory of 1§ has proven barren, no future victory will be fruitful which fails to include them among the defeated forces of corruption and op- pression. Globe-Democrat (rep.): If the house thus stands self-reproached for lack of courage and fidelity, President Cleveland is left in an equally’ disagreeable situation, He frankly and decisively identified himself with the house bill and really assumed the leadership in the fight against the senatc substitute, It Is not conceivable that a sur render has now becn made by his advice or with his consent. He is not that kind of a man Chicago Record (ind): This bill 1s what the majority in congress has to offer in re sponse to the tariff reform sentiment which sent the democracy into power in 1892 by such surprisingly large majoritie: The contrast betwee that popular de and the congressional action upon it is so thing grotesqu: The democracy, standing on a radical tariff platform and elected on that platform by one of the most signal demonstrations of popular approval ever vouchsated to a party, has brought forth a deformed companion to the McKinley law. It is not easy realize that the tarift reform much_better beliey The work of of the of nand Chicago News hinvar came in from the west e on his trousers und fur on his Young L With friy ve The width be beat, His No. 10'brogan His girdle was things, And he flourished kings. brim could nowherc chock full of feet with pistols and of his hat we horrent a handful of and Mariana sate watching o turn up but The falr When who should Lochinvar! Her pulchritude gave him a pectoral glow And he reined up his hoss with a stento B e Then he turn grin, And mode the 1 on the maiden & rapturous tly asked if he mightn't step in With presence of mind that was marvelous | quite, The fulr S0 in through the inyar empted bar ueh the justic to blame, He * him ten d same, Mariana replied that he ung Lock portal rode y Pre the claim and cleaned out the T allowed he wa'n't wholly ts, just th llars ax | tronts | at " DRRORE PUBLICANS, Shall the Party Commit liself to a Tattooed Standard Bearer? The candidacy of Thomas J. the republican party of to its suc in the campalgn. To elevate him to the position of standard bearer will place the party on the defensive and subject it to a galling fire that Majors con- braska as a menace 088 impending THE TELL-TALE the following Majors the bill, certified to by T. X as president of the senate, was placed hands of the auditor and a warrant was fssued to W. M. Taylor as bale for alleged services In the senate or the last fitteen days of the month: nee due CERTIFICATE. / ervicesas I 00 le 7 dayof... ). days af'y 7. mitesattocentsy or rom...¢ 1591, /9 Miteage D Latance due, Lincoln,. . 7 Autest, @i )t le. Spcrptary. I ALD Approved, s/J w D(\( i Received of T.H. Iy (s it could not withstand. Every candidate and every party leader on the stump would be compelled to champlon the candidacy of a man who is tattooed with a record of i dellible infamy. They would be confronted every crossroad with the story of the forged census returns that scandalized the state at the national capital and placed a stigma upon the man whom the peoplo of this commonwealth had honored with a place in the halls of congress as their representa- tive. They would be confronted with the more recent misbehavior of that same ex- congressman while acting in capacity of president of the state senate, During two sessions of the legislature in which he occupied the responsible and honor- able position of presiding officer of the upper house by virtue of his election as lieutenant governor, Mr. Majors was notoriously a tool and capper for the corporatfon lobby, and exerted all his power and influence during cach session of the legislature to promote jobbery and assist boodle schemes and ob- struct, sidetrack and defeat all rallway reg- ulation bills and measures to curb the rapac- ity cf corporate monopoly. SCANDALIZED THE STATE. During the session of 1891 the state was scandalized by the abduction of Senator Taylor, a populist, who had been elected on the anti-monopoly platform, which pledged him to support a maximum rate law. It is notorlous that Taylor was on confidential terms with Lieutenant Governor Majors, and especlally with his private sec- retary, Walt M. Seely. There s no doubt whatever that Majors and Seely must have known of the plot to abduct Taylor in order to keep him from casting his vote for the Newberry maximum rate bill. Taylor's abduction created such a sens tion that even If Majors had not been ad- vised about the plot he could not have been ignorant of the fact that Taylor had disap- peared. The fact that Majors directed tho sergeant-at-arms to have Taylor arrested shows absolute knowledge on the part of Majors of the disappearance of Taylor. The records of the auditor's office show that Taylor had drawn $262.40 as his pay and mileage for the session up to the timo of his abrupt departure in tho middle of March. On March 31, when the session closed, A | SRy Stateyy (&t TOX N litor of P Rlcounts, Warrant No.(/ /P dnonnt, $ 749,25 faay of perday, - »mite, Zutal, Tuct amonnt drawn, 7 1501, 1 herchy certify that the above account is correet and just, and has not been patd. StudiigDilc gccounts, ’/X/)f// # /f/ul(f\/ Deputy. 8 S wunn 2L/ d The above fs a fac simile of the certificate signed by Licutenant Governor Majors and approved by the auditor, as now on file fn the office of the auditor of sta The warrant for $75 was cashed by Walt M. Seely, private secretary of the licutenant governor, and pocketed by him. Taylor never recefved a penny of this money fraudu- lently procured by the connivance of the licutenant goverior. This act alone stamps Thomas J. Majors as a daugerous man in any public office. When he certified that Taylor had served through the entire term he knowingly and wit- tingly committed a grave crime that laid him lable nat only to impeachment, but to prosecution in the criminal courts. Had Majors certified to a fraudulent voucher in the army, or duplicated his own pay in the army pay roll, he would have been court martialed and cashiered in dis. grace. Where the offense was as flagrant as the Taylor voucher fraud, he would have been made to serve a sentence in a military prison. Is this the kind of a man the re- publicans of Nebraska are asked to make chiet exccutive of state and commander-in- chlef of the military forces of the common- wealth? THE SENATE OIL ROOM. The climax of infamy on the part of the lieutenant governor was the conversion of bis private office adjoining the senate cham- ber into a gislative ofl room, in which liquor was dispensed frecly to members of the senate who were addicted to drink, and to lobbyists, male and female, who resorted to the room for debauching the law makers. Every fellow who belonged to the* gang carried a Yale lock key in his pocket 8o as to have access at all times, night or day, when the senate was in session or at recess, to the demijohns and decanters filled with choice brands of liquor, with which the lieu- tenant governor's room was generously supe plied regardless of expense by the corporate concerns whose bills were to be logrolled through and whose {nterests were to be protected by the bland, affable and accoms modating lleutenant governor. Can republicans stultify themselves and Jeopardize their cause by placing a man with such a record at the head of the ticket? T3 MASORS, LIEUTERART GOVERNOR PLRU, NEMANACOUNTY, THE TELL-TALE TAYLOR ORDER. Senate Chambey. auth ot 7 % aly ’/)’k, Qfl% % nanv to VUil /\,LM n The above 1s a fac simile o’ the order of the abducted ex-senator authorizing Walt Seely to recelpt the vouchers and warrants for his uncarned salary. It will be noted that the order Is in the handwriting of Walt M. Scely, private secretary of Licutenant dated an of- It purports to be but s written on Governor Majors. at Portland, Ore., ficlal blank, headed with the name of the Ileutenant governor, at the senate chamber, Lincoln, Neb., with the date line left blank, except the figures 1591, PUMP IRRIGATION, 14.—To the Editor of entire lack of rain the most fertile por again renewed the but the great rights aloug the great irel the peoplo of extent, and & for some power (elther that will INDIANOLA, The Bee: Th during this scason tion" of ska great subject of expense of water gation ditches Aug. almost in has irrigation, has discouraged Nebr nxiously to construct a pump hot air or to somd waiti and Bis) ska ow are on wind, steam vate at a reasonable expense enough water to the surface from a good well to irrigate three, five, ten or perhaps fifteen acres. There are pumps by the score that will throw an ordinary stream of water at a depth of from twenty to thirty feet, but a pump and pow:r that will elevate water in sufficlent quanti- ties from a 150 or 200-foot well to irrigate say five acres is what the farmers of this section are looking for, because if they can socurs water in sufficient quantities to irrl o only three acres they can raise enough stables and small fruits to keep an ordi nary sized family. The Red Willow County Agricultural society Is agitating this subjoct nd will have a large exhibit of pumps, wind wills and cngines at their fair on September & to 7 at Indianola Quite & large number of the leading wind mill and pump factorles have already signi fied their intention to be on the ground and n exhibit. The question of pump tion i8 becoming more prominent every id the frm that can produce a good pump and power will do a thriving business. Ere long almost every farmer In the w will have from three to fifteen acres under tion and suffering for want of rain will be a thing of the past. J. H. BERGE TICKLING TIPS, the abse it only n WAVES care Philadelphia men at the s the girls feel w the ylelding s Record: Tn mmer resorts, hrse to see Ranks—What do_you about Jonah being thre the whale? Tanks—IUs a given my wife worse ex- vork World the st of I've that W think of days inside good thing; cuses than First Girl-1 like & man L with o past 13 always That's true, but [ ) Intervsting as the Third Girl—The man man with a present the present is the Boston Budget with a past. A 1 interesting. Second Girl don’t think he's nearly man with a fut who Interests me is th and the more expensiy jore interest 1 take in it sald to the man who « raflrond car: “Are New York Pr He oceupled Lwo seats in t you o butcher No, I'm not,” smapped the man. “Do T look like a butcher?" Well, no; but I'll bet you don't know how to dress a hog.' Cinelnnati Tribune like n lurk “Now, don't flatt “You ' are “Oh, darling, you sing pleas: zelle, us not flatter- in making game of me, me now Iy THE MUSE AND T'H SENATE. Wishington enator, (nform us you' think this con, Ly your turn- “Pray, ess will ad- Just when Journ The state in thought and heaved a nd in a voice “Auk of the stars, Asic of the murmurings f deep ask each whispering tree £ et mar sigh of wadness made reply: who endless vigils keep om the vasty Go to the forest Ask of the de'll himself, but don't sl